Wales Students head coach Clive Griffiths was delighted with his side’s performance against a Valleys XIII on Friday night, selected from players from the JES Rugby League Conference. The Students scored 40 unanswered points in the second half after a closely fought first period. “It was a great exercise for us as we’ve trained really …
Wales Students will travel to face a Valleys XIII this Friday at Graig Park, Tonypandy, the home of South Wales Saints RLFC (kick-off 7pm). This is the first match in Clive Griffiths’ Wales side’s preparation for next year’s Four Nations series. Many of last year’s side have been retained with just six newcomers to the …
JES Group Welsh Conference champions Aberavon Fighting Irish will break new ground in January as they have been given an away tie at Northern Ireland’s Banbridge Broncos in the First Round of the Betfred Challenge Cup. This match will be one of 17 that will be played on the weekend of January 10-11. Should they …
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The draws for the 2026 Rugby League World Cups have been made, with Wales set to open their campaigns against England in both the Women’s and Wheelchair events. In their other group matches, Wales Women will be breaking new ground by taking on both the World Champions, Australia, plus Samoa for the first time, whilst Wales …
Wales won a hard-fought match against the UK Armed Forces, with every player giving their all. Scotty Turner gave Wales the lead on five minutes, converting his own try. The Forces soon struck back with a James Simpson-Hill try that Tristan Norfolk couldn’t convert but he made up for that by grounding from the next …
Leading African nation Ghana will see a further boost to its capacity through a week-long visit next week by IRL tutor James Jones, who is also the head of Wales Rugby League’s match officials. The deployment coincides with the American ROOTS Rugby Family and Nigeria tours to Accra. Ghana was one of three African nations …
Wales Wheelchair side head coach Alan Caron has named a squad of 10 to face UK Armed Forces on Saturday at Allam Centre in Hull (Kick-off 2pm). The squad was solely selected from those who attended the recent training session and there’s just one change from the side who competed in this season’s Celtic Cup. …
An East Wales Girls U14 side will take to the field for the first time this weekend, when they travel to Oldham to face Waterhead Warriors (kick-off 12.30pm). It’s the next step in the progression of representative rugby league for girls, after matches were played by South Wales Jets this year, as they took …
Are you currently playing Rugby League outside of the South Wales community game and eligible to represent Wales by living in North Wales or by qualifying through family heritage? Please complete the information on the link below to register interest for the Wales RL U16s International Team Trials for the 2026 programme. This …
IRELAND WOLFHOUNDS 26 WALES DRAGONHEARTS 22 PHIL HODGSON Castleford Panthers, Saturday The Dragonhearts are still without a win this autumn, but it was a mightily close-run thing at Castleford Panthers in a game in which the Irish, who have now won five successive games, were relieved to hear the final whistle. Wales coach Si Reynolds …
